Vocabulary : Juice to Jukes, The

Juice : The characteristic fluid of any vegetable or animal substance; the sap or part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking. ;; To moisten; to wet.
Juiceless : Lacking juice; dry.
Juiciness : The state or quality of being juicy; succulence plants.
Juicy : A bounding with juice; succulent.
Juise : Judgment; justice; sentence.

Jujitsu : Alt. of Jiujitsu
Jujube : The sweet and edible drupes (fruits) of several Mediterranean and African species of small trees, of the genus Zizyphus, especially the Z. jujuba, Z. vulgaris, Z. mucronata, and Z. Lotus. The last named is thought to have furnished the lotus of the ancient Libyan Lotophagi, or lotus eaters. ;; A lozenge made of or in imitation of, or flavored with, the jujube fruit.
Jujutsu : Alt. of Jiujitsu
Juke : To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head. ;; The neck of a bird. ;; To perch on anything, as birds do.
Jukes, The : A pseudonym used to designate the descendants of two sisters, the "Jukes" sisters, whose husbands were sons of a backwoodsman of Dutch descent. They lived in the State of New York, and their history was investigated by R. L. Dugdale as an example of the inheritance of criminal and immoral tendencies, disease, and pauperism. Sixty per cent of those traced showed, degeneracy, and they are estimated to have cost society $1,308,000 in 75 years.

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